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Post by Toto Gamboa on May 28, 2012 3:08:40 GMT
Walang kakupas kupas! Great shot as usual from Ka Mastah!
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Post by Toto Gamboa on May 28, 2012 3:07:17 GMT
Bird mayhem! What a rare treat!
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Cicada
May 10, 2012 1:42:06 GMT
Post by Toto Gamboa on May 10, 2012 1:42:06 GMT
Woooow wow!
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Post by Toto Gamboa on May 6, 2012 2:09:14 GMT
Great Thanks Adri!
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Post by Toto Gamboa on May 5, 2012 15:20:38 GMT
Whiskered Tern?
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Post by Toto Gamboa on May 2, 2012 5:07:12 GMT
Thanks Mark, Mick and Tina
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Post by Toto Gamboa on May 1, 2012 5:32:29 GMT
Thanks Neon and sir Bob. Sir Bob, the pacific reef egret is a guaranteed fixture in Nagsasa Cove, Pundaquit Zambales. A 1.5 hours boat ride from Pundaquit. It is I think very used to tourists, so you will be guaranteed full framers from long canons to wide kit lens type shots For 3 camping days, the bird would feed at around 4pm to sundown (100% guaranteed) where the golden sun hits its beautiful plumage. The time it feeds though will force you to probably stay and camp out at night in the cove (no electricity, no accommodations, amenities but only the bare essentials like toilets, mini enterprising sarisari stores na walang laman hehe) unless you want to brave the boat ride back to Pundaquit because of darkness and rough seas. The sea begins to get rough in the afternoon. Tents, cooking utensils and some essential stuff can be rented from boatmen. But the beauty of the place is superb! You will fall in love with the place! ADDED INFO: for 4 days that I was there, there were a few bird calls unknown to me. Never bothered to look for them though as I dont have the gears. While traveling along the coast on our way back home, I saw 3 of those reef egrets together with a white egret on the high mountain walls facing the ocean. I also saw a kingfisher hovering like a hummingbird for 15 seconds or so above the water just before it darts itself to pick up some fish.
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Post by Toto Gamboa on Apr 30, 2012 23:26:10 GMT
Thanks folks! Des, some locals told me that those mountains used to be where the Americans practice their bombing runs with their fighter jets when they still had their military bases in Clark and Subic some decades ago.
The trees on the beach on the other hand were brought about by the Mount Pinatubo explosion. I don't know if that is true but seems all the coves in the area seem to be littered with pine trees. The locals said the beaches were treeless eversince they knew prior to the explosion.
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Post by Toto Gamboa on Apr 30, 2012 17:16:04 GMT
I haven't been going birding lately and I think I am on a rut. Then last weekend, I went away off the grid for a 3 night camping and ... went fishing. And for several times now, I consciously went without my birding lens and just brought along a kit lens (the 18-55mm f3.5-5.6). And often, when you don't have your birding gears, things align. Then the birder in you gets awaken and you are in a rush all of a sudden. However, here is what happened when you only have a kit lens. Canon 50D, Shot @ 55mm, 1/800sec, ISO200, Handheld. Canon 50D, Shot @ 55mm, 1/800sec, ISO200, Handheld. Canon 50D, Shot @ 37mm, 1/800sec, ISO200, Handheld. With the kit lens, I was able to stalk the bird for like 30 minutes and the closest I had was around 10 meters. I have to shoot from the knee deep water as I notice the bird doesn't mind I am there as long as I stay in the water.
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Post by Toto Gamboa on Apr 9, 2012 4:21:17 GMT
I am not expert but the first birds could be a scarlet-collared flowerpecker and the last one an immature pygmy flowerpecker.
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Post by Toto Gamboa on Apr 7, 2012 12:42:58 GMT
heheheheh!
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Post by Toto Gamboa on Apr 7, 2012 12:35:05 GMT
Nice feather details!
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Post by Toto Gamboa on Apr 7, 2012 12:34:29 GMT
lovely!
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Post by Toto Gamboa on Mar 20, 2012 11:24:26 GMT
Great shots! Are those in the Philippines?
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Post by Toto Gamboa on Mar 20, 2012 11:00:55 GMT
40D ba? hehehe. Now I would really wait when you use your 5Dm3
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Post by Toto Gamboa on Mar 20, 2012 7:57:31 GMT
Grabe ang quality! Is this the shot of a 5Dm3?
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Post by Toto Gamboa on Mar 20, 2012 7:54:33 GMT
Wooooohoooo. The Mastah's back! As ever, excellent photos with a very engaging story to boot!
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Post by Toto Gamboa on Mar 13, 2012 5:11:41 GMT
Good composition. Well done, showing the environment and balancing the photo. Thanks Tonji!
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Post by Toto Gamboa on Mar 13, 2012 5:10:38 GMT
wow, nice toto! nice meeting you (again) also. congrats on 171. 29 na lang, nasa magic 200 na! Nice to have crossed path with you once again. I got 10 lifers last year so that means 3 more years for me to reach the magic number haha!
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Post by Toto Gamboa on Mar 13, 2012 0:39:24 GMT
Very many thanks folks for the kind and wonderful comments Not much big catch but lots of smaller ones. Have not been able to photograph my catch as I have not brought a smaller lens. These lovely swallows made my day though as I have been hoping for the longest time to get a really good perching shot of these flyers
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